All Articles Tagged As: global warming

Global Sea-Rise Levels By 2100 May Be Lower Than Some Predict (9/5/2008)

Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility. ...> Full Article

Ice Age lesson predicts a faster rise in sea level (9/4/2008)

Team reports that sea level rise from greenhouse-induced warming of the Greenland ice sheet could be double or triple current estimates over the next century. ...> Full Article

Thawing permafrost likely to boost global warming (9/2/2008)

Greenhouse gas emissions from previously frozen organic carbon in soil are seen as larger than previously believed ...> Full Article

Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold (2/18/2008)

If carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue on a "business-as-usual" trajectory, humans will have added about 5 trillion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere by the year 2400. A similarly massive release of carbon accompanied an extreme period of global warming 55 million years ago known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). ...> Full Article